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Hit and Run killer to be sentenced next month
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June 14, 2019
A family has been left without a father because of the actions of Branson George who did a hit and run, knocking down all members of the family with a...
Women fined and bonded for bad behavior
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May 31, 2019
The Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) may have had two more patients last Wednesday, if two women poised to fight with cutlass and icepick weren’t ...
Man guilty of robbery, discharging firearm
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May 28, 2019
Desmond ‘Shortman’ ‘Joey’ Browne, has been found guilty on four charges related to an incident where he shot at someone to acquire a 14 karat gold cha...
Sandy Bay man shaves a year off his sentence
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May 17, 2019
A man sentenced for possession of twenty-five 12-gauge bullets took a shot at reducing his sentence last week, managing to shave a year off his four y...
Absentee Juror fined
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May 17, 2019
A juror has been fined $40 for not being present for jury duty. Although the High Court assizes began on April 30, the presence of the Court of Appeal...
Too many woman beaters in SVG – Judge
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May 10, 2019
An Appeal Court Justice has commented that there are too many men coming before the court for beating women in St Vincent and the Grenadines(SVG). Cou...
Woman bonded for slapping child’s father
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May 3, 2019
A defendant was bonded this Monday for slapping her child’s father outside the Family Court after losing custody of her child. This display of aggress...
Young man on  attempted murder charge
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April 30, 2019
A 23-year-old was charged with attempted murder yesterday, in connection with an incident in which more than 20 shots were said to have been fired at ...
Woman who slapped student escapes jail time
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April 18, 2019
This Monday, the court refused to endorse the actions of a 42-year-old mother who believed she was right in slapping a 16-year-old at the entrance to ...
Two men, same crime, different sentences
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April 18, 2019
Two men, who committed the same crime of stabbing a man with switch blades will both be incarcerated, but the sentence of one will more than double th...
Bail for two men facing  cocaine charges
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April 9, 2019
Bail has been set at $15,000 for two men from Ottley Hall who are facing numerous cocaine related charges. Junior ‘South’ James, a dock worker and Jos...
Layou man faces 13 year prison sentence
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April 5, 2019
A “HOT TEMPERED” “braggadocious” resident of Layou who stabbed someone three times because he looked at him, was given a 13-year prison sentence last ...
Teen fined for stealing Massy supermarket sign
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April 2, 2019
Last year, MASSY Supermarket’s “No vending no loitering sign” was plucked by a protesting 17-year-old vendor; an action costing the teenager a crimina...